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James P. Hoffa
American
Businessman
Born:
May 19
,
1941
America
American
People
War
Workers
You
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Wage theft, worker rights and workplace discrimination should not be swept under the rug. The United States cannot have a functional economy where all the gains go to the corporate class while all the pain goes to regular workers.
James P. Hoffa
Class
Rights
Pain
Rug
Corporate
States
Economy
Wage
Go
Discrimination
Goes
Where
Cannot
While
Gains
Theft
Worker
Workers
Regular
Should
Swept
Workplace
Functional
United
United States
Improving the outlook for U.S workers isn't about creating millions of minimum-wage jobs. It is about creating sustainable, skilled employment that allows Americans to earn a fair wage with benefits that allows them to pay for housing and food on the table and sustain a middle-class lifestyle.
James P. Hoffa
Food
Benefits
Pay
Earn
Jobs
Table
About
Outlook
Lifestyle
Fair
Employment
Housing
Wage
American
Improving
Sustain
Sustainable
Them
Workers
Skilled
Creating
Millions
Public sector employees are the eyes and ears on the ground for the communities they serve.
James P. Hoffa
Eyes
Employees
Ears
Sector
Public
Communities
Ground
Public Sector
Serve
That's what unions do. They can get money, they can get support, they can get manpower.
James P. Hoffa
Money
Unions
Support
Get
Manpower
We didn't start this war - the right wing did. We're tired of seeing good-paying jobs shipped overseas. This fight is about the economy, it's about jobs and it's about rebuilding America.
James P. Hoffa
War
Tired
Fight
Right-Wing
Jobs
Seeing
About
Wing
Good-Paying
Economy
Overseas
Shipped
America
Did
Rebuilding
Right
Start
And some of those people that voted Republican are now going to say, what a mistake I made because I didn't know they were going to take my job away. I didn't know they were going to take collective bargaining away.
James P. Hoffa
Mistake
People
Job
Made
Collective
Say
Those
Collective Bargaining
Some
Take
Voted
Know
Because
Were
Going
Republican
Bargaining
Now
Away
Corporate tax dodging impacts us across generations and over time. It is corrosive. It is unethical. It is unsustainable.
James P. Hoffa
Time
Corporate
Corrosive
Impacts
Generations
Over
Unsustainable
Dodging
Unethical
Tax
Us
Across
I will never apologize for standing up for my fellow Teamsters and all American workers.
James P. Hoffa
Will
All-American
Never
Fellow
Up
American
Workers
Apologize
Standing
Standing Up
American Workers
We vote - if the public votes 50 percent, we vote 70 percent. So we have a bigger impact with our numbers, and the organization and the manpower we can bring to a race.
James P. Hoffa
Vote
Organization
Our
Impact
Percent
Votes
Bigger
Public
Race
Manpower
Bring
Numbers
Anyone who has followed the U.S. economy in recent years can tell you while corporate America and their wealthy executives have recovered from the last recession, middle-class families have not. About 95 percent of income gains between 2009 and 2012 went to the top one percent.
James P. Hoffa
You
Recession
Corporate
Corporate America
Top
Tell
One Percent
Wealthy
Followed
About
Percent
Recovered
Between
Economy
Executives
Years
Families
America
Anyone
While
Gains
Who
Income
Last
Recent
Recent Years
Congress has turned its back on America's working families. There are Teamster families in every congressional district in America, and those families vote. Those who would oppose these families have done so at their own political peril.
James P. Hoffa
Vote
Political
Oppose
Own
Congress
Every
Back
Those
Would
District
Peril
Families
America
Done
Turned
Working
Working Families
Congressional
Who
Today we are united, strong and on the move. Today we have a strong strike fund. Today we have the resources to run large-scale organizing campaigns against global employers. Today we have $100 million in the bank.
James P. Hoffa
Today
Strong
Resources
Strike
Run
Global
Employers
Campaigns
Bank
Move
Against
Organizing
Fund
United
Large-Scale
Million
The mob's not coming back in the Teamsters Union. We've gotten rid of them, and we're free to be free of government supervision.
James P. Hoffa
Government
Free
Back
Supervision
Gotten
Coming
Mob
Them
Rid
Union
All workers want is a fair shake.
James P. Hoffa
Shake
Fair
Fair Shake
Want
Workers
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